Yeah, it’s another layer, and so there definitely is an https://xkcd.com/927/ aspect to it… but (at least in theory) only having problems getting Docker (1 program) to run is better than having problems getting N problems to run, right?

(I’m pretty ambivalent about Docker myself, BTW.)

I’m aware of that, but OP requested “explain like I’m stupid” so I omitted that detail.

A program isn’t just a program: in order to work properly, the context in which it runs — system libraries, configuration files, other programs it might need to help it such as databases or web servers, etc. — needs to be correct. Getting that stuff figured out well enough that end users can easily get it working on random different Linux distributions with arbitrary other software installed is hard, so developers eventually resorted to getting it working on their one (virtual) machine and then just (virtually) shipping that whole machine.

in a WebKit browser

Yeah, but ewww.

Can I hook a Wii Balance Board to it to track my weight?

My plan is to use the $20 Onn (Walmart store-brand) Android TV box LTT recommended as being eminently jailbreakable about a year ago, but I haven’t actually gotten around to hooking it up yet so I can’t authoritatively endorse it.

Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.

Inspired by yesterday’s Jeff Geerling video, were we?

Thanks, I now also understand the purpose of Immich because of this post.

Hi folks, I’m the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.

I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren’t as egregious.

The comments removed were:

• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285074
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14288217
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14288405
• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285112

The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All

He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.

The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.

Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I’m now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he’s right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.

I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the “remove content” checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn’t record in the modlog that that’s what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn’t undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.

Anyway, I’ve looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can’t see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they’re viewed in context or something (I haven’t quite figured out the reason yet), so I can’t just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that’s nice I guess.

P.S.: I’d like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his…

• https://lemmy.world/comment/14285516

…which I not only didn’t remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it’s replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That’s how lenient I’ve intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.

P.P.S. I’m not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.

If I understand correctly, it’s kinda like an add-on IPMI, in the sense that it doesn’t rely on the target computer’s OS to be running to work.

I’m glad you posted this because I need similar advice. I want a GPU for Jellyfin transcoding and running Ollama (for a local conversation agent for Home Assistant), splitting access to the single GPU between two VMs in Proxmox.

I would also prefer it to be AMD as a first choice or Intel as a second, because I’m still not a fan of Nvidia for their hostile attitude towards Linux and for proprietary CUDA.

(The sad thing is that I probably could have accomplished the transcoding part with just integrated graphics, but my AMD CPU isn’t an APU.)

I’m using a couple of TP-Link EAP225 ceiling-mounted PoE access points, and one EAP235-wall wall-mounted one, connected to my old TP-Link Archer C7 router (with the antennas disabled) running OpenWRT.

I’d like to replace the router with something rack-mounted, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I love that GL.iNet stuff ships with OpenWRT (or apparently FreeRTOS in the case of the Thread border router I’m eyeing right now), but I wish they would make stuff like ceiling or wall-mounted PoE access points and rack-mountable wired routers. The form-factor is what stops me from choosing them over TP-Link devices that I have to flash OpenWRT onto myself.

Don’t get lazy with soundbars; do it properly with discrete speakers (at least in the living room).

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4LFDPbbSVk

I don’t know the answer, but I do know I’d at least start off looking for hardware with a dedicated ASIC for routing, not general-purpose PC hardware doing routing with the CPU.

In the long run, shit like this is theft from the Public Domain.

Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.

Research papers should be typeset with L^AT_EX.

I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local.

I was definitely leery of Ubiquity for that reason since before 2020. Even though back then it could all be local, I feel like pushing people to the cloud was already well-established as being a thing.

My criteria for routers and wi-fi access points up to this point has basically been “can run OpenWRT and is relatively cheap,” so I’ve settled in on TP-Link. I’m still running on an old Archer C7 from a decade(?) ago and would like to have something that fits in my rack for aesthetic purposes, though, so my next router might be a 1U DIY x86 machine running OPNsense instead.